Mastodawn

We woke this morning to find we are at war—without any strategic explanation or urgent new threat to our nation. Iran is a bad actor on the world stage, but the American people have not been given any evidence of an appreciable change, & Congress did not authorize any action.

Trump, who promised no wars, is now again putting the lives of our men and women in uniform in grave danger all while trampling all over the Constitution.

As usual #senatormccormick and #senatorfetterman are complicit.

Stephen Feb 23

"To echo Malcolm X, these monstrosities should be stopped by any means necessary," writes @willbunch.bsky.social about the Trump regime's plans for a concentration camp network as part of its mass deportation infrastructure, something ICE’s Todd Lyons likened to "[Amazon] Prime, but w/human beings.”

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-detention-centers-georgia-dhs-noem-trump-20260222.html

The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American

An internal Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Stephen Jan 24

George Takei

🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Jan 24

Those who try to erase the past will never learn its lessons.

Stephen Jan 24

Electronic Frontier Foundation Jan 24

Fair use remains the right starting point for thinking about AI training. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/search-engines-ai-and-long-fight-over-fair-use

Search Engines, AI, And The Long Fight Over Fair Use

Long before generative AI, copyright holders warned that new technologies for reading and analyzing information would destroy creativity. Internet search engines, they argued, were infringement machines—tools that copied copyrighted works at scale without permission. As they had with earlier information technologies like the photocopier and the VCR, copyright owners sued.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Stephen Jan 19

STAT Jan 19

What lingers in ‘The Pitt’ is heartache. What’s missing is outrage https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/18/the-pitt-covid-failures-despair/

What lingers in ‘The Pitt’ is heartache. What’s missing is outrage

“I am hungry, so hungry, for some depiction of Covid that tells the truth. That what was done to us was not just unbearable, but wrong,” an emergency physician writes of “The Pitt.”

STAT

Stephen Jan 19

Mental Floss Jan 18

5 Proven Tips to Reduce Jet Lag on Long-Haul Flights
https://www.mentalfloss.com/live-smarter/travel/proven-tips-to-reduce-jet-lag?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Science @science-mental_floss

5 Proven Tips to Reduce Jet Lag on Long-Haul Flights

Beat time zone fatigue with this jet lag survival guide!

Mental Floss

Stephen Jan 14

What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We’re all finding out.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/ice-recruitment-minneapolis-shooting.html

You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.

What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.

Slate

Stephen Jan 11

The Conversation U.S.Jan 11

Why an astronomer is really excited about today's telescope launch: "We built Pandora to shatter a barrier – to understand and remove a source of noise in the data – that limits our ability to study small exoplanets in detail and search for life on them."
https://theconversation.com/nasas-pandora-telescope-will-study-stars-in-detail-to-learn-about-the-exoplanets-orbiting-them-272155 #space #astronomy #news

NASA’s Pandora telescope will study stars in detail to learn about the exoplanets orbiting them

The findings from Pandora will complement data from the James Webb Space Telescope to give astronomers more insight into stars and planets outside our solar system.

The Conversation

Stephen Jan 11